Old tires, furniture, even the carcasses of dead animals are some of the items dumped in an open area of Valencia County near Tome Hill.Sky 7 video from May 2014 shows some of the trash. Action 7 News returned to the area 10 months later and found the same couch and the same boat. They have not moved.The cost to clean up the open land is at least $500,000. The county simply doesn’t have the money or resources to clean it up."We don't financially have the capability to clean up sites right away and sites tend to stay longer than they should,” said Jacobo Martinez, community development director in Valencia County.Martinez said the county created a task force that is focused on education and enforcement.“We've actually taken more people to court in the last six months than we've had in the last few years,” he said.Other options to stop people from illegally dumping trash in the area include possibly building a public safety building or affordable housing.Martinez said the task force organized a community event in April to clean the area.MOBILE USERS: Tap here for video

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

Old tires, furniture, even the carcasses of dead animals are some of the items dumped in an open area of Valencia County near Tome Hill.

Sky 7 video from May 2014 shows some of the trash. Action 7 News returned to the area 10 months later and found the same couch and the same boat. They have not moved.

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The cost to clean up the open land is at least $500,000. The county simply doesn’t have the money or resources to clean it up.

"We don't financially have the capability to clean up sites right away and sites tend to stay longer than they should,” said Jacobo Martinez, community development director in Valencia County.

Martinez said the county created a task force that is focused on education and enforcement.

“We've actually taken more people to court in the last six months than we've had in the last few years,” he said.

Other options to stop people from illegally dumping trash in the area include possibly building a public safety building or affordable housing.

Martinez said the task force organized a community event in April to clean the area.